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...proponents say digital 3-D is a different animal from the analog stuff that came before 2005. Viewers often wore cardboard glasses with red and cyan cellophane lenses (similar to but somewhat different from what you see in this magazine). As just about everyone knows, old-school 3-D was less than awesome. Colors looked washed out. Some viewers got headaches. A few vomited. "Making your customers sick is not a recipe for success," Katzenberg likes...
...movie theaters that have been equipped with a device that fits over a digital movie projector, converting its image to 3-D. Moviegoers will get disposable Polaroid glasses that look like sunglasses, making the 3-D effect far more engaging than it was with the old-fashioned red-cyan anaglyph cardboard glasses of the 1950s and '60s. That said, the Super Bowl commercial (as well as Monday night's episode of the NBC sitcom Chuck) is designed for TV broadcast and requires a setup that's similar to anaglyph - a newer, higher-quality version called ColorCode. "It doesn't bleed...
...about the SciTech Oscars resembles its glitzier counterpart held later this month at the Kodak Theater. No one asked the guy who designed the mysterious-sounding Brugmatic MPST Densitometer who he is wearing. No one speculated if the woman who helped the film industry convert from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks is finally over her ex. No one thanked his agent - although the computer science department at MIT did get name-checked...
...quest for killer prints has taken developers in different directions. Epson's Stylus Photo R800 ($400; www.epson.com composes images using eight separate inks: the traditional cyan, magenta, yellow and black, plus a glossy black, a deeper red and blue, and a clear-gloss coating for white areas. The Dell Photo Printer 540 ($180; dell.com) which issues only 4-in. by 6-in. prints, fuses thermal dye onto special photo paper. Four passes of primary color, and out comes an image that fingerprints won't harm. The 540 can print directly from the memory cards of most cameras or connect...
Press units installed in the newspaper’s basement over winter break enable the broadsheet to publish up to four pages in full-color—introducing cyan, magenta and yellow to The Crimson’s presses for the first time since in-house printing began...